"Woohoo, beat my old Quartz Quadrant Zone 1 time; now it's 35'15'!"
Besides, Aldo knows that I do that often. I'll just wait to hear what he has to say about it all. 
There's 2 kinds of SRPG's:
Flexible - Allows you to have various units, typically in a fantasy setting, that allows the player freedom of choice while still introducing enemy types that are weaker to certain classes and strategies.
Specific - Almost always in a war or Risk setting, these require almost veteranship status in the mechanics of the game itself and of SRPGs in general.
VC is the latter. Not necessarily harder (that was only the Demo I played), just different.